Flashback: The cause of independence

This signed photograph of Maulana Muhammad Ali, one of the founders of the All-India Muslim League, was presented by Maulana Jauhar to Sardar Mohammad Ashraf Khan Popalzai in 1913.

Popalzai had served as governor of Kashmir and he had spent time with Maulana Jauhar at Aligarh University.  After graduating from Aligarh, Maulana Jauhar went on to Lincoln College Oxford, England, in 1898 to study modern history.  He launched an English weekly, Comrade, in 1911 and an Urdu weekly, Hamdard, in 1913.

Elected president of the All India Muslim League in 1918, he continued to champion the cause of independence until 1931, when he died in London. He was buried in Jerusalem as he had wished. 

CONCEPT: SANAM MAHER

DESIGN: SAMRA AMIR

This August, The Express Tribune will feature photographs from contributions to an open call for images from the struggle for independence and Pakistan’s formative years.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 22^nd, 2014.